LibGuides: TIM-6715 V1: Week 5 Resources

Week 5 Resources

Pomerleau, P., & Lowery, D.L. (2020). Countering cyber threats to financial institutions: A private and public partnership approach to critical infrastructure protection (1st ed.). 9783030540548.

Read Chapter 5, Major Themes in the Literature of Cybersecurity and Public-Private Partnerships: A Focus on Financial Institutions.

This chapter makes a case for identifying the infrastructure critical to the protection efforts and the need for clear goals for accountability and responsibility to be established. Public safety in handling cybercrime and cybersecurity incidences in developing resiliency strategies focuses on the private and public domains.

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Going Beyond FFIEC: How the Banking Industry Can Step Up Security Assessments
Smith, G. (2019). Going beyond FFIEC: How the banking industry can step up security assessments. ISSA Journal, 17(9), 8–41.
This article presents challenges to the banking industry to increase security assessments and lower risk levels. The use of the FFIEC tool to assist in testing related to industry standards is discussed.
Risk and the Five Hard Problems of Cybersecurity
Scala, N. M., Reilly, A. C., Goethals, P. L., & Cukier, M. (2019). Risk and the five hard problems of cybersecurity. Risk Analysis: An International Journal, 39(10).
This article looks at cyber defense and selects areas of opportunity to add risk analysis principles to the cybersecurity field. The Science of Security (SoS) initiative at the National Security Agency makes the case to promote interdisciplinary research through a framework of five core problem areas.

The resources below are highly suggested, optional readings that will help you with this week’s assignments.

Keeping Customers’ Data Secure: A Cross-cultural Study of Cybersecurity Compliance among the Gen-Mobile Workforce
Ameen, N., Tarhini, A., Shah, M. H., Madichie, N., Paul, J., & Choudrie, J. (2021). Keeping customers’ data secure: A cross-cultural study of cybersecurity compliance among the Gen-Mobile workforce. Computers in Human Behavior, 114.
This study looks at the impact of human behavior on cybersecurity risk and compliance. The authors make the case based on the increasingly mobile workforce in the field and the known data breaches impacting customer data security.
Cyber Strategy: Risk-Driven Security and Resiliency
Carol A. Siegel, & Mark Sweeney. (2020). Cyber Strategy: Risk-Driven Security and Resiliency. Auerbach Publications.
This e-book describes cybersecurity strategies using several of industry-standard frameworks discussed in this class. Some of the topics detailed are cyber risks and controls, current and target statement assessments, and measuring cybersecurity plan performance. This e-book is a valuable tool to have as a reference and specific chapters are valuable resources for the weekly assignments.